The Timur Ruby, weighing some 361 carats, is named after Timur. Irregularly shaped, it bears the etched names of five ...

The Afghan Durrani Empire took Wakhan from Czarist Russia in 1763. Greater Badakhshan, straddling Afghanistan and Tajikistan, remained a contentious territory between Afghanistan and Russia ...

14 January 2011 Sabarimala stampede in Kerala: 104 devotees died, and over 100 were injured during a tragic incident.

It was not until 1826 that Dost Muhammad, the youngest of Painda Khan’s sons, finally prevailed over his brothers and lay claim to what remained of the Durrani empire. There was little left.